Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several strains of a retrovirus of the genus Lentivirus that cause an immunodeficiency syndrome similar to AIDS in primates by infecting helper T cells of the immune system.

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  • initialism virology simian immunodeficiency virus
  • initialism virology swine influenza virus

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[s(imian) i(mmunodeficiency) v(irus) .]

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Examples

  • Assuming that he meant to ask whether an ancestral VPU gene existed in SIV prior to the divergence of SIVcpz and HIV, then erv answered that question (YES!) in her very first post.

    Dave Scot Strikes Again! 2007

  • The gov’t is propping them up, and they are hiding (amongst the lot of them) 100’s of billions (foolishly best case scenario) or trillions (likely scenario) off their balance sheets in SIV’s.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Bank Failures in Perspective 2009

  • C has $800 billion in SIV’s off the balance sheet.

    Matthew Yglesias » Non-Sequitur Objections to Bank Nationalization 2009

  • So-called SIV assets, or structured-investment vehicles, have dropped to 2.6% of its cash funds from as much as 6% previously.

    Legg Mason's No. 1 Priority: Turnaround 2008

  • So-called SIV assets, or structured investment vehicles, have dropped to 2.6% of its cash funds from as much as 6% previously.

    Legg CEO plans rebound 2008

  • King County also invested in a risky form of SIVs known as SIV-lites that typically invest more than SIVs in securities tied to residential-mortgage securities, including subprime loans.

    King County, Wash., Fund Michael Hudson And Carrick Mollenkamp 2007

  • MBIA said it has invested $15.8 million in the capital notes of the Hudson-Thames SIV, which is 12% of the capital notes, adding that it has no obligation to provide liquidity support or credit guarantees to the SIV.

    MBIA Serves Up Quarterly Loss 2007

  • Barclays had to borrow twice from the Bank of England for overnight money, and it was also heavily involved in structuring several highly leveraged so-called SIV lite vehicles that nearly collapsed.

    What Price a Download? 2007

  • There is a "cousin" virus to HIV called SIV, or simian immunodeficiency virus, that causes a disease similar to AIDS in certain types of monkeys.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2009

  • There is a "cousin" virus to HIV called SIV, or simian immunodeficiency virus, that causes a disease similar to AIDS in certain types of monkeys.

    Zee News : India National 2009

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